Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers. He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Red ribbons adorned one city, while blue ribbons hung in another town — all to honor the National Guard members who were attacked in Washington this week.
A vigil was held on Friday for Specialist Sarah Beckstrom in Webster Springs, W.Va. Specialist Beckstrom died in a shooting while she was on duty in Washington, D.C.
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
They discussed a possible meeting between the two of them, but nothing has been scheduled, and the administration continues to increase the military pressure on Venezuela.
The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
The shooting of two National Guard members and President Trump’s response insures that immigration will remain at the center of American politics heading into the 2026 midterm election cycle.
Doctors told Ray Hester he was in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s, but a brain scan revealed instead he had LATE dementia. “There’s a certain amount of relief knowing that it’s not Alzheimer’s,” his wife, Sandy, said.
The resurgence of “Roundball Rock,” the N.B.A. theme song he composed, has made the musician more visible than he’s been in over 20 years. He hasn’t been idle.
Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who died on Thursday, was not initially excited to go to Washington, but had grown to enjoy the city. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe remained in critical condition on Friday.
In his own words, William Li, a resident of the Hong Kong apartment complex that became an inferno, recounted how he and two neighbors survived until help arrived.
For years, architects and design experts have resisted safety changes at Seattle’s Gas Works Park, but after a teenager died there this summer, his parents want it declared a public nuisance.
Residents of Wang Fuk Court apartments had raised concerns about flammable foam panels and scaffold netting, but the government did not take decisive action.
Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff and top peace negotiator, became the highest-ranking casualty of an investigation into a vast kickback scheme.
Applicants at a naturalization in California this year. President Trump wrote that he would stop migration from “all Third World Countries” in social media posts filled with rhetoric that was incendiary even by his standards.
Legions of backstage workers have helped the Grand Ole Opry thrive for a century in Nashville. Diana McBride is known for her lemonade — and much more.
A still from Palestine TV of two Palestinian men kneeling on the ground shortly before they were shot dead during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.
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